Catering Assistant

Salary: 16.25 hours per week, £8000 per annum, Term Time plus INSETS

Experience:

Valid Food Hygiene qualification preferred but not essential.
Experience of working in a busy kitchen environment.
Previous experience in an educational environment.
Ability to follow Codes of Practice. (Please refer to the Health & Safety and Hygiene Practices).
Ability to use general catering equipment safely and correctly Ability to deliver high standards of customer service.

Main Duties:

Ensuring that Trust and Statutory regulations, regarding hygiene, safety and cleanliness, are complied with in all tasks at all times.
To comply with all the appropriate legal requirements in the kitchen.
To assist, as directed, with all aspects of preparation, production and presentation of food.
Assisting with serving at Service Time.
To undertake all aspects in cleaning equipment - walls (up to 6 ft), floors, fixtures and fittings, toilets, pots, pans, cutlery, crockery, glassware etc. To be completed daily to the Trust standard according to the cleaning rota or as directed.
Comply with the rotas set by the Catering Manager and rotate jobs on a termly basis.
To assist in loading service counters, as directed, and to ensure sufficient supplies.
To ensure a high standard of personal and general cleanliness and hygiene to comply with Trust and statutory regulations

To assist with vending filling, cleaning & emptying cash boxes.
To ensure tables are left clean (tables are at child level)
To operate cashless catering systems.
To maintain catering records to the Trust standards.
Working as a team and to ensure a responsible attitude towards other employees.
To record food temperatures as per Trust standards
To work as directed by the Catering Manager and Kitchen Supervisor.
To transport food or goods to any building on site.
To assist at functions some of which may occasionally occur outside normal working hours.
To work in other Trust academies if needed.
To report and where possible act for any customer complaints or compliments.

Why Work With SAT?

SAT is an educational charity, multi-academy trust and sponsor of academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence. We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. We are opening one new Free Schools in pre-operations. All our academies share our values and beliefs, and all benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers. SAT also is a newly registered provider of Apprenticeships and has recently been announced as a designated regional Teaching School Hub. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.